The What, Why and How of
Build fluency in oral L1
Mother Tongue-Based
Multilingual Education
(MTB-MLE)
PRE-TEST
1. What is the purpose of
multilingual education
program?
a. Acquire additional
language
b. Develop appropriate
cognitive and reasoning
skills
c. Create a strong
foundation in their
language
d. Provide structure
program of language
2. What grade level is
MTB-MLE used as a
subject?
a. Grade 1 to 3
b. Kindergarten to Grade 3
c. Grade 1 to Grade 6
d. All level
3. Establish strong
educational foundation
that able the learners to
“bridge” to the school and
prepared to live both all
their language for success
in school and for life long-
long learning.
a. cognitive
b. language
c. academic
d. development
4. At this level MT (Mother
Tongue) is a subject, build
fluency in oral L1,
introduce L1 literacy and
begin oral literacy in
Filipino and English.
a. kindergarten
b. grade one
c. grade three
d. grade 1 to 3 9.
and use L1 as LOI
5. This development begins (Language of Instruction).
at birth, it allows a. Kindergarten to Grade 3
engagement in learners to b. Kindergarten
move well beyond the b. Grade 1
basic questions of who, c. Grade 2
what, when and where to
cover all higher order 10. Students will be
thinking skills. prepared to enter and
a. development achieve well in the
b. academic mainstream education
c. cognitive system. They will achieve
d. socio-cultural competencies in each
subject area at the end of
6. The end -result of MTB- the program.
MLE is to developed a. academic
children who are _____. b. cognitive
a. multilingual, multi- c. emotional
literate and multicultural d. socio-cultural
b. multilingual,
multicultural, multi-
talented
c. multi-literate, developed,
socio-cutural
d. multilingual,
7. Bridging to Filipino
literacy, bridging to English
literacy and used MT as LOI
in all learning areas.
a. kindergarten
b. grade one
c. grade three
d. grade 2
8. Allows students to be
proud of their heritage
language and culture of
others; they will be
prepared to contribute
productively to their own
community and to the
larger society.
a. academic
b. cognitive
c. emotional
d. socio-cultural